Why Ahngella Merkel????

Jack Sawyer

Why does Irish media insist on collectively referring to the German Chancellor as Ahngella Merkel????

Anytime i listen to Deutsche Welle news a German english language radio service they just call her Angela - pronounced just like you would have heard it all your life???

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't it be so typically funny if this was dumb Irish Journalists copying each other like smalltime lemming hacks? Like the time one of them discovered the term 'swingeing cuts' and suddenly Irish journalism as a collective couldn't mention anything else for 6 months straight?

Baaaaa!

cloud493

I don't know what this is/

corner of hells

I bought a new razor yesterday.

ruthloss

Vot?

wretcheddomain

The Gestapo are on their way...

...to close the thread.

The Hill Billy

The pronunciation you are complaining about is actually correct. German has a 'hard' G sound.

It is kind of at odds with other names that they mispronounce such as Nicolas Sarkozy. Should be Nic-o-lah Sar'ko-ZEE & not Nic-o-lass Sar-KOH-zee.

Pat Mustard

Jack Sawyer wrote: »

Why does Irish media insist on collectively referring to the German Chancellor as Ahngella Merkel????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_exDGaI0Y

dxhound2005

Should it not be pronunced Angel a as in guardian angel?

kneemos

corner of hells wrote: »

I bought a new razor yesterday.

Can I have it when your done?

ruthloss

'die ahnungslosigkeit'
(lit.cluelessness)
The state of being completely uninformed about what is going on.

For Forks Sake

corner of hells wrote: »

I bought a new razor yesterday.

My cats name is Mittens.

ruthloss

For Forks Sake wrote: »

My cats name is Mittens.

Or 'Fausthandschun'., for short:p

PopePalpatine

ruthloss wrote: »

'die Ahnungslosigkeit'
(lit.cluelessness)
The state of being completely uninformed about what is going on.

You seem to be clueless about the fact that all nouns start with a capital letter in German.

Pherekydes

I'm painting skirting boards.ie

Mr. CooL ICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_DjiLLDfo

Remmy

The Hill Billy wrote: »

The pronunciation you are complaining about is actually correct. German has a 'hard' G sound.

It is kind of at odds with other names that they mispronounce such as Nicolas Sarkozy. Should be Nic-o-lah Sar'ko-ZEE & not Nic-o-lass Sar-KOH-zee.

Sharon ni bheolain makes an absolute clusterfcuk of his name all the time

Oops69

Ask Michael murphy, he lives to pronounce foreign names .....and to advise us to suit ourselves when it comes to Christmas.

Trebor176

I guess it's how she pronounces it. So, that's how everyone pronounces it that way. Why is there Marie (pronounced like marry) and Marie (pronounced like maree)?

Son Of A Vidic

Jack Sawyer wrote: »

Why Ahngella Merkel????

Because goose step.

stefan idiot jones

Their chocolate smells of sausages

Lapin

Things were so much easier when German leaders were called Helmut.

You always knew where you stood with your Helmut.

gunny558

I watched a documentary about her (its still on youtube if anyones interested) and the whole way through they kept calling her ang-gill. Just basically left the 'a' out altogether.

Crann na Beatha

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darkpagandeath

Because we like putting H were there is none or over pronouncing a H were it's not needed or silent. I on the other hand can say . This, that , these and those. without going dis, dat dess and doooes. And I say Tomas not Thhhhhomas.... :pac:

diograis

The Hill Billy wrote: »

The pronunciation you are complaining about is actually correct. German has a 'hard' G sound.

It is kind of at odds with other names that they mispronounce such as Nicolas Sarkozy. Should be Nic-o-lah Sar'ko-ZEE & not Nic-o-lass Sar-KOH-zee.

call me a pedant but...

French as a language places equal stress on every syllable, not stress on the last one. So your correction is as wrong as the way they say it.

Better luck next time hun

darkpagandeath

diograis wrote: »

call me a pedant but...

French as a language places equal stress on every syllable, not stress on the last one. So your correction is as wrong as the way they say it.

Better luck next time hun

This is what I don't get either, the fake put on French accent here and UK. You never hear French news readers suddenly burst into a Irish or UK accent when pronouncing stuff from here or there. Think it's a throw back from when traveling became cheap to seem cultured.

Pat Mustard

diograis wrote: »

call me a pedant but...

French as a language places equal stress on every syllable, not stress on the last one. So your correction is as wrong as the way they say it.

Better luck next time hun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34qWzwQBmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPDLK-WqIE

the_barfly1

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Because we like putting H were there is none or over pronouncing a H were it's not needed or silent. I on the other hand can say . This, that , these and those. without going dis, dat dess and doooes. And I say Tomas not Thhhhhomas.... :pac:

Hwhill Hwheaton

Drakares

Because that's how her name is pronouced.

mad muffin

I call her Frau Farbissina.

gunny558

mad muffin wrote: »

I call her Frau Farbissina.

???

mad muffin

gunny558 wrote: »

???

Oh behave

diograis

The Mustard wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34qWzwQBmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPDLK-WqIE

aaaaand they say it with equal stress on all syllables. Lovely videos btw

mad muffin

diograis wrote: »

aaaaand they say it with equal stress on all syllables. Lovely videos btw

I pronounce it;

Nicolass Sarcosy

darkpagandeath

mad muffin wrote: »

I pronounce it;

Nicolass Sarcosy

Same here I'm not French, Why would i put a French accent on. French people don't put an Irish accent on saying Paddy.

munchkin_utd

RTE has a pronounciation guide (same as BBC) so all newsreaders have to follow that and will get training and coaching if needs be. So thats why they all do the same pronounciation of certain random foreign names.

But anyhow, the pronounciation that REALLY is annoying is the US foreign minister John Kerry, whose surname many news readers pronounce as Carey

Now, John Kerry's granddad renamed the family after a certain county in south west ireland, that is NOT pronounced Carey - especially if you are saying it as an irish person talking in an irish accent.

(BTW, it seems to now be pronounced more often than not as "Kerry", so someone had the cop on to prounounce the irish name the irish way)

KungPao

And Americans with this A (like bay) dolf Hitler. Give the man some respect and say his name properly.

mad muffin

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Same here I'm not French, Why would i put a French accent on. French people don't put an Irish accent on saying Paddy.

Exactly. They pronounce it Paadi. Why is the onus always on the English speaker?

KungPao

munchkin_utd wrote: »

RTE has a pronounciation guide (same as BBC) so all newsreaders have to follow that and will get training and coaching if needs be. So thats why they all do the same pronounciation of certain random foreign names.

But anyhow, the pronounciation that REALLY is annoying is the US foreign minister John Kerry, whose surname many news readers pronounce as Carey

Now, John Kerry's granddad renamed the family after a certain county in south west ireland, that is NOT pronounced Carey - especially if you are saying it as an irish person talking in an irish accent.

(BTW, it seems to now be pronounced more often than not as "Kerry", so someone had the cop on to prounounce the irish name the irish way)

What about Jim Carrey?

mad muffin

KungPao wrote: »

And Americans with this A (like bay) dolf Hitler. Give the man some respect and say his name properly.

And (eye)Iraq, Iran, Italian...

KungPao

mad muffin wrote: »

Exactly. They pronounce it Paadi. Why is the onus always on the English speaker?

They try a bit like we sometimes try a bit. Even when we say something french like french people, it's generally still very different than the actual way they pronounce it.

munchkin_utd

KungPao wrote: »

What about Jim Carrey?

What about Jim Carrey. His name is Carrey so prounced that way.

John Kerry is Kerry - like the county, and actually is named after the county.

The 2 names are not the same and should not be prounced the same - ESPECIALLY in the country which contains a county called Kerry.

Pat Mustard

diograis wrote: »

aaaaand they say it with equal stress on all syllables. Lovely videos btw

No they don't. But I'm glad you enjoyed the videos.

curioser

Didn't Eamon Gilmore do us proud when, after being appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, he disappeared to Europe for about a year, spent his time rubbing shouders with the great and the good, and re-surfaced with the breathtaking news that the big two leaders were pronounced President Sar-co-zee and Chancellor Mer-kell and not Sar-cosy and Merkle as the clowns on RTE were pronouncing them.